To: God From: Protein Wisdom Re: Edible panties (raspberry) You fucking rock, dude. Respectfully, protein wisdom
April 2010
April 5, 2010
Fifty-ninth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this post, Henry Waxman, fresh back from having his cornhole bleached, will sit on a cold stool at La Loma and — nearly simultaneously — devise a regulatory plan that would require all Capitol Hill restaurants to line their bar seats with those spongy foam-plastic rings the lumpenprole like to keep strapped to their crappers.
April 5, 2010
The time has come…
…for the crazed right1 to end the violence!2, 3 1 The 40% of Tea Party demonstrators who identify as Independent or Democrat, while certainly not violent, are nevertheless under the thrall of reactionary and racist far-right rhetoric, and so should be collected for reeducation. Because killing them with sticks takes away potential votes. Chicago excluded. 2 Sure, there hasn’t been any actual violence to speak of — at least, not
April 5, 2010
The United States of Westernist Western Europe
The Hudson Institute’s Irwin Stelzer, writing in the WSJ: So we are to have a European-style value-added tax (VAT). That’s the emerging consensus in Washington as people come to recognize the reality of the deep financial hole into which the Obama administration has dug us. […] The tax sounds simple, but don’t be fooled. Because both upper- and lower-income families pay the tax at an equal rate, the VAT is
April 3, 2010
Things to do in Denver when you’re dead, #89
Go ahead and try a half-dozen of the “atomic wings” — the kind made with Dave’s Insanity Sauce or some such. Because you know you’ve always wanted to — and because, well, what’s the worst that can happen, right…?
April 3, 2010
Black Ties
Andrew Breitbart on racial politics and the Tea Party movement: Linking the health-care bill, which has nothing to do with black and white, to the divisive civil-rights period, while simultaneously accusing its opponents of being racist, is an evil strategy — literally. Charles Manson would approve. The Democratic Party is trying to signal to the black community and to progressive media types that the way to push back against the
April 2, 2010
You know what day it is, right? Howsabout you trot the little guy out and let him do his thing —
Well, I would if I could. But the truth is, he took off about three days ago with the twenty bucks I gave him for his old Gibson acoustic and a ratty rucksack stuffed with cheese sandwiches and port wine. Heading off to find himself a Tea Party protest, he told me. — Not that he cares much about smaller government, mind you. Just that he’s “always wanted to bang
April 2, 2010
Scalia’s role in ObamaCare’s Constitutionality
It’s come down to this. From the WSJ: The constitutional challenges to ObamaCare have come quickly, and the media are portraying them mostly as hopeless gestures—the political equivalent of Civil War re-enactors. Discussion over: You lost, deal with it. The press corps never dismissed the legal challenges to the war on terror so easily, but then liberals have long treated property rights and any limits on federal power to regulate
April 2, 2010
Climate Wars II: The Empir(icists) Strike Back
One of the hobby horses of this site has been my recurring critique of “meaning” as a function of interpretive consensus (itself a rather lazy extension of meaning as a function of convention) — an epistemological maneuver that I’ve argued is incoherent outside of its end game, which is to control narratives, and in so doing, to seize power by way of deciding and policing identity claims. To some, such